Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> A random thought occurred to me today - why does gschem do slotting at
> all?  Why does it care about footprints and packages?

It is not only pcb that "reads" the schematic, but humans, too. During 
debugging I need to know which pins to poke my probe at. This is only 
possible, if the schematic shows actual pin numbers. 


> Would it make
> more sense, from a design flow perspective, to just send the symbolic
> information to pcb and let pcb assign footprints and pinouts?

It would make the schematic useless for the creation of a BOM. 

 
> That way, gschem does all the symbolic stuff, and pcb does all the
> physical stuff. 

Is there any other EDA software that does footprint selection and slotting 
in the layout tool?

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